Illinois Democrat to Attend SOTU with Illegal Immigrant

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will be attending Tuesday’s State of the Union address with Gabino Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who has received, according to Gutierrez’s office, “multiple misdemeanor charges for driving without a license by local police over the past ten years.”

Sanchez resides in South Carolina and entered the country illegally when he was 15-years old. He is a husband and father of two children who were born in the United States.

In May 2012, “Sanchez was granted a 12 month continuance in his case as he pursued relief from deportation”; he has been granted an additional month to apply for Obama’s Deferred Action program, which gives a temporary work permit to those who came to the country illegally as children and meet certain requirements.